I advise HR Directors and their teams as well as Boards, line managers and business entrepreneurs on sensitive or business critical HR issues, including unfair competitive activity, senior executive severance, whistleblowing, partnership disputes and industrial action. I have run the business of an Employment department and so I am well placed to understand the practical and commercial pressures as well as legal implications of being an employer.I work for a range of clients, many in the leisure and hospitality sector and other multi-sited employers whether private, listed or private equity backed. Issues where my experience can assist you are those that arise during the lifetime of the employment relationship: such as best practice in recruitment or negotiating senior executive service agreements, supporting HR and line managers in handling employee relations issues, guiding boards and executives through a negotiated exit, managing sensitive or business critical disputes (in particular where there are whistleblowing allegations and the scope for unlimited awards of compensation) and Employment Tribunal representation.I work also on internal audit and regulatory issues for corporates protecting corporate reputation and investor value that might include bribery, diversion of business and false accounting.Specialties: I specialise in particular in executive termination (acting for both executives and employers), restrictive covenant drafting, circumvention and enforcement, partnership disputes, the employment implications of corporate restructuring and outsourcing, whistleblowing claims, and industrial action. I also have considerable experience of advising where there is an international dimension and recent experience includes acting on projects in China, France, Ireland and Poland.I can be contacted on my mobile 0044 (0)7879 891001.